[Logcheck-devel] Bug#319169: logcheck: chokes on log files whose names contain spaces

[Jan Suchy]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.39
Severity: normal

The logcheck script fails to protect the file names with quotes, e.g. [ -f $file ]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (550, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-586tsc
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.63                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-86               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.30.13               Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.8.4                   Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim4            4.50-8                  metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-lig 4.50-8                  lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.39                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.39                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17                System Logging Daemon

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